i generalized the topic to catch the recent freenode controversy - FYI, people have suggested that parabola should join a different IRC network (yes, #parabola is established on the librea network)
that exposed a larger issue though, involving several services, which are (arguably) recommended by, but not operated by parabola: * freenode * gnu-social * pagure * reddit * TPPMs and in-app downloaders - mozilla (lang-packs via auto-download vs packages) - the essential "TPPMs" issue whatever the outcome, this would be a good opportunity to re-evaluate which are the "official" recommendations, for each essential networking purpose: [ repo/git , bugs , chat , patches , webby-social-something-new? ] ... (or to argue which of those service classes are "essential") - most importantly for documentation, which hosts are in which class? a few IMHOs: * freenode had a solid rationale; and it remains sound currently * general or support chat would not be on the "essentials" list * perhaps _some_ real-time dev-only channel could be essential (eg: mumble) * anything which is essential, should be self-hosted * any which are non-essential, may be recommended * non-essential services are ideally community-operated * avoid all third-parties, unless explicitly considered to be "community" ... we could also argue which are considered to be "community" as a rough guide, i propose: in precedence, server hosts and hardware donors, (people who actually help parabola) have been somehow denoted publicly (_somehow_) as special "friends of parabola" (or community) if we define "friends of freedom": as those who help parabola in some tangible way, and do so only because parabola is libre software; then other third-parties such as reddit may not be "friends of freedom", where freenode would _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
